Date: 1700
"This made the first impression in his mind / Above, but just above, the brutal kind."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1700, 1717
"And, as the soften'd Wax new Seals receives, / This Face assumes, and that Impression leaves; / Now call'd by one, now by another Name; / The Form is only chang'd, the Wax is still the same."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"Reflection is the last and greatest Bliss: / When turning backwards with inverted Eyes, / The Soul it self and all its Charms, surveys, / The deep Impressions of Coelestial Grace / And Image of the Godhead."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"Large is their Soul, and capable to take / The first Impression's Gain or Pleasure make"
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1712
"Thus Fancy does the pliant Foetus wind, / Thus makes Impressions on the feeble Mind."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (1675-1713); Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718); Quillet, Claudius (fl.1640-1656)